I can't really say I'm sad to see them go. Actually, I really felt indifferent on becoming a 20 year old (surprise, surprise huh?). One cool thing though is that for this year, I can have a new nickname, D-20 (I'm just going to try to put in as many bad jokes as I can into posts from now on). Ok well now that I am back from Sunriver, I have a lot of open space ahead of me. Some odd jobs are coming my way, I haven't heard any plans for warhammer yet (which is nice because I don't know how badly/often I want to be playing that), I'm ready to hang out with people, and my days are becoming more organized. Before I go through the week, I'll get some stuff out of the way. The week will mostly be about family stuff, but it might be somewhat entertaining to you. I am putting that as the last part of the post though so you don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read the parts that are relevant to you.
Summer Plans:
I have Wednesdays pretty much permanently reserved for hanging out with the guys from jazz band because we want to keep practiced up on trumpets and stuff. On Wednesday nights, I'll be doing some ultimate playing with Steven and Eric and any others that want to join. Also, I need to have lunch with Grandpa at least once a week so I can get groceries with him and whatnot. Also, that is something I want to do. Aside from that, I might be out once or twice a week (though I hope not more) for warhammer. I will generally be able to schedule my odd jobs around the availabilities of people I am planning to hang out with. As for odd jobs, congrats to me, I have found some! Well, mostly just one for now. I have a lot of house improvement lined up for me such as replacing our front door, resurfacing the deck, painting, general cleaning, and possibly felling a tree. That will not be for pay though, it will be my way of paying back my parents for paying for college and stuff. A job I will get paid for is giving private lessons. I guess one of my sister's friends is switching from flute to french horn and wants me to give her some private lessons since she has not played a brass instrument before. Now I can almost see two of you (Davis and Maddy if she reads this) questioning my ability to teach on french horn. Don't worry, I already thought about that myself. I eventually decided that I have a decent resume for a french horn player my age including that honor band, first chair in band (the people in my section were all really good players, despite what it may have sounded like), playing in jazz band. Besides, I think I'm good enough to know how to teach a total beginner and I will be charging a laughably small rate anyway. So yeah, that's my first outside the house odd job that came my way. It will be fun and hopefully more show up for me soon.
Now for my week
Tuesday:
We spent the day in the car from about 9am-5pm. We had a lunch break, but that was really it. We just hung out at the house the rest of the day once we got to Sunriver. My uncle and aunt showed up a few hours after we did.
Wednesday:
My uncle decided he would do a half marathon for his warmup run. He was very tired after that. I forgot to mention earlier that he was planning on running the marathon that Friday in Sunriver. He's a big bigger than me, but he had been training. I would need to do a lot of training because I suck at running and I would have to get my knees to a point where I could run on them. Since it was just the 5 of us again that day, nothing much happened. Kathryn, mom, and I did some biking, but not much else. We all hit up Costco for groceries.
Thursday:
My aunt and uncle went for a walk somewhere, so I went on my own walk somewhere else after I got up. I walked 4 miles in an hour, which was very comfortable. I got back shortly after my aunt and uncle and mom and Kathryn got back from their bike ride a little bit after I got back. That afternoon, my cousin and her husband came in (the ones that just got married a few weeks ago). We discovered that my uncle and 2 of his most annoying kids as well as grandma were staying nearby. Due to family drama, we thought they weren't coming at all. My cousin and Kathryn and I went on a search to see if it was really them and it turned out it was. It was kind of awkward because we knew they were pretty pissed at us about the housing situation (leaving them out (there wasn't enough room, we would have been over capacity by 3 people)). Anyway, shortly after they got there, a few of us had to go pick up dad from the airport since he was flying in that day to miss only one day of work for the week.
Friday:
My other cousin and his wife came in early in the morning. Before they got back though, I went on an 8 mile round trip bike ride with Kathryn, Dad, and my cousin. Once everyone was there, we all hung out and didn't get much done because we were all content to sit around and relax.
Saturday:
My uncle and cousin were running the marathon, so we took them there early in the morning, then stood along the route and held signs and cheered as they passed. We got bored after they went by, so we decided to drive along the path and try to stalk them. My cousin did the marathon in about 4.5 hours and my uncle did it in 6.5. It was pretty cool. I'm thinking in 2 years, I'll try running it too. I need to start running more often than I currently do though. After that marathon, they were pretty tired, so we let them rest. My cousin and I went to Bend to get a game for everyone to play. It was this game she has at her house that is like apples to apples, but you write whatever you want instead of playing from a card in your hand, so it is infinitely more fun. I didn't mind that I didn't win because I was able to write down funny things and as long as I was getting some laughs, it made up for how horrible I was at guessing what people said what.
Sunday:
It was my birthday, but we had to get back home, so we watched both soccer games (which were both poorly reffed) before spending the rest of the day in the car. For my birthday, I got a hard drive and a couple CDs, which is great. I will soon be putting in that hard drive and getting some Windows 7 going.
Today:
I'm enjoying a day off. I haven't really had a day at home to myself yet since break started, so this is nice. I am feeling guilty though since I'm used to doing stuff every day. Like I said earlier in the post, I'm good to hang out most of the time. Until I hopefully see you in person, peace out.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Two thousandth post? What?
Well who knew. I guess this is my blog's 2,000th post. I didn't even notice I was getting close until just now I was going to make the post and it said 1,999 posts. That's pretty cool I guess. Well it's been almost two weeks since summer began and I last posted. I have really filled that time with a lot of stuff. Hopefully the post will not be long as I think it is going to be. While I won't post day by day, know that I did one of these things (if not more than one) each day since the last post. I apologize in advance for how simply worded this post is, I'm making it in a bit of a hurry.
Warhammer:
So I've gotten a bit further into warhammer 40k now. I have an army and it is all painted up and ready for the tournament this summer. I don't think any of you are particularly interested in hearing about it, but I will say that you should not worry, I am not becoming THAT nerdy, I still will choose DnD and videogames over warhammer.
DnD:
Lucy played with us in our first session and it went really well. She plays a little like Sai and Steven and I which is pretty entertaining. Another cool thing she did was get us twice the money we were originally promised from doing a quest. Aside from that, our new characters are pretty entertaining. I am a neurotic alchemist and in the two sessions we have had so far, I have been to jail twice. I enjoy the use of bombs and I bust them out rather frequently. It is not all great though as I almost killed Steven and I the other day by having a bad bomb throw. Fortunately we both have high HP, so we survived an explosion that fell right at our feet.
Family:
Grandpa and I went to Costco a couple times and then we began work on cleaning out the shed yet again. We never really did complete it last summer and my aunt really wants all the crap gone. I must say, he's doing really well with throwing things away. Since I have a very similar personality to him, I know how attached he can get to the crap in the shed, even the stuff he hasn't seen in about 15 years. I spent a couple afternoons on that shed and recently did a small dump load of 300 pounds. We also had a party for my aunt last weekend. We got to see my cousins' house again and it is really coming along. They got it for cheap, but they had to make a ton of repairs and they're still working on it.
Videogames:
I finished the Saboteur which was too bad, I really liked that game. Recently, on the PC, Steven showed me the Typing of the Dead. It's a really silly game, but at the same time, it's pretty entertaining. I spent a lot of time playing it. I think we should cosplay for it at pax. Speaking of cosplay...
Star Wars Concert:
So Davis and I went to Star Wars in Concert in Spokane this past Saturday. Not only did we do that, we wore HOMEMADE JEDI ROBES!!!11 to the concert. I guess Davis thought more people would dress up, but I was pretty sure not a lot would. Not a lot of people that were not children dressed up. The fact that we were probably the oldest guys dressed up in the area was quite nerdy and quite awesome. Pics are below by the way, I think I forgot to mention that earlier.
College stuff:
I got my grades back from SCC, I graduated with over a 3.5GPA! That means my GPA has improved by .5 since high school. I was pretty happy even though I know I probably could have done better. Either way, I now will get good money off for Seattle U. The extra couple thousand dollars over the UW tuition will be worth it for the guarantee that I will get in the classes I need to graduate in 2 years. I really needed that since I am doing law school for 3 years after my BA degree is finished. Also, at Seattle U, they don't let class sizes go over 40 students (except maybe band classes), so that will be super awesome. I went and met with a counselor last week because i had to. The Administrative desk girl was about my age and she was pretty cute and shy as was I since she was cute. My parents later told me she was blushing and they think she liked me (yeah Davis, my parents really seem to want me to hook up with some chick). Anyway, the counselor I went to see was really cool. She had about 15 opened 12packs of beer in her office left over from a senior party. She was pretty hip and not all uptight like I thought she would be (since it is a jesuit school after all). I think I'm really going to like it at Seattle U and I might even stay there for law school unless Keir and I both get into the UW. In that case, I would probably go there.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some things here, but that's fine. This post is getting pretty long anyway. I need to start taking notes between posts so I don't forget so many things. At any rate, I'll be gone this week and I will get back late at night on my birthday (I expect so many facebook wishes! (nawt!)). We'll have to do something after I get back. If not for me, at least for Davis' big 21st. Perhaps a possible LAN party again soon?
Ok well I'll let you get back to whatever you were planning on doing, peace out.
Warhammer:
So I've gotten a bit further into warhammer 40k now. I have an army and it is all painted up and ready for the tournament this summer. I don't think any of you are particularly interested in hearing about it, but I will say that you should not worry, I am not becoming THAT nerdy, I still will choose DnD and videogames over warhammer.
DnD:
Lucy played with us in our first session and it went really well. She plays a little like Sai and Steven and I which is pretty entertaining. Another cool thing she did was get us twice the money we were originally promised from doing a quest. Aside from that, our new characters are pretty entertaining. I am a neurotic alchemist and in the two sessions we have had so far, I have been to jail twice. I enjoy the use of bombs and I bust them out rather frequently. It is not all great though as I almost killed Steven and I the other day by having a bad bomb throw. Fortunately we both have high HP, so we survived an explosion that fell right at our feet.
Family:
Grandpa and I went to Costco a couple times and then we began work on cleaning out the shed yet again. We never really did complete it last summer and my aunt really wants all the crap gone. I must say, he's doing really well with throwing things away. Since I have a very similar personality to him, I know how attached he can get to the crap in the shed, even the stuff he hasn't seen in about 15 years. I spent a couple afternoons on that shed and recently did a small dump load of 300 pounds. We also had a party for my aunt last weekend. We got to see my cousins' house again and it is really coming along. They got it for cheap, but they had to make a ton of repairs and they're still working on it.
Videogames:
I finished the Saboteur which was too bad, I really liked that game. Recently, on the PC, Steven showed me the Typing of the Dead. It's a really silly game, but at the same time, it's pretty entertaining. I spent a lot of time playing it. I think we should cosplay for it at pax. Speaking of cosplay...
Star Wars Concert:
So Davis and I went to Star Wars in Concert in Spokane this past Saturday. Not only did we do that, we wore HOMEMADE JEDI ROBES!!!11 to the concert. I guess Davis thought more people would dress up, but I was pretty sure not a lot would. Not a lot of people that were not children dressed up. The fact that we were probably the oldest guys dressed up in the area was quite nerdy and quite awesome. Pics are below by the way, I think I forgot to mention that earlier.
College stuff:
I got my grades back from SCC, I graduated with over a 3.5GPA! That means my GPA has improved by .5 since high school. I was pretty happy even though I know I probably could have done better. Either way, I now will get good money off for Seattle U. The extra couple thousand dollars over the UW tuition will be worth it for the guarantee that I will get in the classes I need to graduate in 2 years. I really needed that since I am doing law school for 3 years after my BA degree is finished. Also, at Seattle U, they don't let class sizes go over 40 students (except maybe band classes), so that will be super awesome. I went and met with a counselor last week because i had to. The Administrative desk girl was about my age and she was pretty cute and shy as was I since she was cute. My parents later told me she was blushing and they think she liked me (yeah Davis, my parents really seem to want me to hook up with some chick). Anyway, the counselor I went to see was really cool. She had about 15 opened 12packs of beer in her office left over from a senior party. She was pretty hip and not all uptight like I thought she would be (since it is a jesuit school after all). I think I'm really going to like it at Seattle U and I might even stay there for law school unless Keir and I both get into the UW. In that case, I would probably go there.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some things here, but that's fine. This post is getting pretty long anyway. I need to start taking notes between posts so I don't forget so many things. At any rate, I'll be gone this week and I will get back late at night on my birthday (I expect so many facebook wishes! (nawt!)). We'll have to do something after I get back. If not for me, at least for Davis' big 21st. Perhaps a possible LAN party again soon?
Ok well I'll let you get back to whatever you were planning on doing, peace out.
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